[sclarisse]

To support our next-gen machine learning system, we need a 10 exabyte storage array. It should host a system accessible over TCP/IP or Infiniband that can stream random-access 1MB blocks of data to 65,536 different computers, at continuous loads of 64 GB/second each computer, using a protocol of your choice or design. Correct for all data corruption and do not lose a single bit during the next 1,000 years of operation.

Yes, we can add more specs but these alone should be pretty daunting.

[dylan604]

What does this have to do with building software? This is something submitted on a form for hardware for a capex

[sclarisse]

If you think you’re gonna organize that many bits and not lose them for centuries at a time, you’re seriously underestimating the need for data replication and error correction algorithms, first of all.

[dylan604]

Again, that's a hardware storage solution's problem. Adjust the parity level in the filesystem. Unless you're writing the requirements for building the software for a storage platform.

[sclarisse]

… yes, that is in fact the point

[ubercore]

There are money, operations, and delivery time requirements, just off the top of my head, not expressed in that requirement that vastly changes the solution.

[DevFem666]

And the client is all over you/the company.